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Then he brought me to the north gateway and measured it according to these same measurements--
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also its gate chambers, its gateposts, and its archways. It had windows all around; its length was fifty cubits and its width twenty-five cubits.
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Its gateposts faced the outer court, palm trees were on its gateposts on this side and on that side, and going up to it were eight steps.
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There was a chamber and its entrance by the gateposts of the gateway, where they washed the burnt offering.
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In the vestibule of the gateway were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which to slay the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering.
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At the outer side of the vestibule, as one goes up to the entrance of the northern gateway, were two tables; and on the other side of the vestibule of the gateway were two tables.
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Four tables were on this side and four tables on that side, by the side of the gateway, eight tables on which they slaughtered the sacrifices.
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There were also four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, one cubit and a half long, one cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high; on these they laid the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
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Inside were hooks, a handbreadth wide, fastened all around; and the flesh of the sacrifices was on the tables.
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Outside the inner gate were the chambers for the singers in the inner court, one facing south at the side of the northern gateway, and the other facing north at the side of the southern gateway.
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Then he said to me, "This chamber which faces south is for the priests who have charge of the temple.
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The chamber which faces north is for the priests who have charge of the altar; these are the sons of Zadok, from the sons of Levi, who come near the Lord to minister to Him."
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And he measured the court, one hundred cubits long and one hundred cubits wide, foursquare. The altar was in front of the temple.
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Then he brought me to the vestibule of the temple and measured the doorposts of the vestibule, five cubits on this side and five cubits on that side; and the width of the gateway was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side.
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The length of the vestibule was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; and by the steps which led up to it there were pillars by the doorposts, one on this side and another on that side.